authority

legitimate power to decide or authorize
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authority

Summary

authority is a concept[1]. authority draws 522 Wikipedia views per month (concept category, ranking #126 of 912).[2]

Key Facts

  • authority's image is recorded as AuthorityOfLaw.JPG[3].
  • authority's instance of is recorded as concept[4].
  • authority's GND ID is recorded as 4003990-0[5].
  • authority's Library of Congress authority ID is recorded as sh85009789[6].
  • authority's Bibliothèque nationale de France ID is recorded as 119340651[7].
  • authority's subclass of is recorded as role[8].
  • authority's NDL Authority ID is recorded as 00565509[9].
  • authority's Commons category is recorded as Authority[10].
  • authority's BNCF Thesaurus ID is recorded as 13886[11].
  • authority's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/016wqg[12].
  • authority's NL CR AUT ID is recorded as ph118710[13].
  • authority's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Authority[14].
  • authority's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Power (social and political)[15].
  • authority's National Library of Spain SpMaBN ID is recorded as XX4576318[16].
  • authority's Dewey Decimal Classification is recorded as 303.36[17].
  • authority's PSH ID is recorded as 9475[18].
  • authority's Library of Congress Classification is recorded as HM1251[19].
  • authority's OmegaWiki Defined Meaning is recorded as 291[20].
  • authority's facet of is recorded as governing body[21].
  • authority's Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana ID is recorded as 0221529[22].
  • authority's described by source is recorded as Encyclopedia of Political Theory[23].
  • authority's described by source is recorded as Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1926–1947)[24].
  • authority's described by source is recorded as Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[25].
  • authority's described by source is recorded as Lean Logic[26].
  • authority's described by source is recorded as Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, 4th edition (1885–1890)[27].

Why It Matters

authority draws 522 Wikipedia views per month (concept category, ranking #126 of 912).[2] authority has Wikipedia articles in 26 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[28] authority is known by 41 alternative names across languages and contexts.[29]

References

Programmatic citations — every numbered marker resolves to a verifiable graph row below.

Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] . Nuovo soggettario. Retrieved . thes.bncf.firenze.sbn.it. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  6. [8] . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] . Nuovo soggettario. wikidata.org.
  10. [12] . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  11. [13] . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] . Nuovo soggettario. Retrieved . thes.bncf.firenze.sbn.it. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  15. [17] . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] . wikidata.org.
  24. [26] . wikidata.org.
  25. [27] . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [28] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [29] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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APA 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph. (2026). authority. Retrieved May 3, 2026, from https://4ort.xyz/entity/authority
MLA “authority.” 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph, 4ort.xyz, 3 May. 2026, https://4ort.xyz/entity/authority.
BibTeX @misc{4ortxyz_authority_2026, author = {{4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph}}, title = {{authority}}, year = {2026}, url = {https://4ort.xyz/entity/authority}, note = {Accessed: 2026-05-03}}
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